Is there any correlation between this affine property and the fact that you can emulate addition with subtraction (but not the other way around) and that you ca

Is there any correlation between this affine property and the fact that you can emulate addition with subtraction (but not the other way around) and that you can emulate multiplication with division (but not the other way around). e.g. x+y == x-(0-y) x*y == x/(1/y)